Global aspects of the renormalization group and the hierarchy problem

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2017.09.010zbMATH Open1378.81078arXiv1709.10359OpenAlexW2753574856WikidataQ125996387 ScholiaQ125996387MaRDI QIDQ679949FDOQ679949

Authors: Andrei T. Patrascu 

Publication date: 22 January 2018

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations allowed us to precisely determine its mass being 125.09 $pm$ 0.24GeV. This value is intriguing as it lies at the frontier between the regions of stability and meta-stability of the standard model vacuum. It is known that the hierarchy problem can be interpreted in terms of the near criticality between the two phases. The coefficient of the Higgs bilinear in the scalar potential, $m^2$, is pushed by quantum corrections away from zero, towards the extremes of the interval $[-M_{Pl}^2,M_{Pl}^2]$ where $M_{Pl}$ is the Planck mass. In this article, I show that demanding topological invariance for the renormalisation group allows us to extend the beta functions such that the particular value of the Higgs mass parameter observed in our universe regains naturalness. In holographic terms, invariance to changes of topology in the bulk is dual to a natural large hierarchy in the boundary quantum field theory. The demand of invariance to topology changes in the bulk appears to be strongly tied to the invariance of string theory to T-duality in the presence of H-fluxes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10359

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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